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John Singleton Copley : Watson and the Shark wikidata:Q19851210 reasonator:Q19851210
Artist
John Singleton Copley (1738–1815) wikidata:Q316016 s:en:Author:John Singleton Copley (1738-1815)
John Singleton Copley
Description American artist and painter
Date of birth/death 3 July 1738 Edit this at Wikidata 9 September 1815 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Boston (Massachusetts) London
Work location
Boston , London
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q316016

Details on Google Art Project
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Title
Watson and the Shark
Series title Watson and the Shark Edit this at Wikidata
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre history painting Edit this at Wikidata
Depicted people Brook Watson Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1778
date QS:P571,+1778-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 182.1 cm (71.6 in); width: 229.7 cm (90.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,182.1U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,229.7U174728
institution QS:P195,Q214867
Current location
West Main Floor Gallery 60 B
Accession number
1963.6.1
Place of creation United States of America Edit this at Wikidata
Object history Brook Watson [1735 1807], London and East Sheen, Surrey; bequeathed to Christ's Hospital, London; [1] purchased 1963 by NGA.
  1. ↑ Watson's will, dated 12 August 1803, states: "I give and bequeath my Picture painted by Mr. Copley which represents the accident by which I lost my Leg in the Harbour of the Havannah in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty Nine to the Governors of Christs Hospital to be delivered to them immediately after the Decease of my Wife Helen Watson or before if she shall think proper so to do hoping the said worthy Governors will receive the same as a testimony of the high estimation in which I hold that most Excellent Charity and that they will allow it to be hung up in the Hall of their Hospital as holding out a most usefull Lesson to Youth." (Public Record Office, London; copy, NGA curatorial file). The school's committee of almoners voted 28 September 1819 to accept the painting and place it in the great hall (minutes of a meeting of the Board of Almoners, Christ's Hospital, 28 September 1819; extract, NGA curatorial file). Christ's Hospital, a school for disadvantaged boys, was founded in London in 1553 by King Edward VI and was relocated to Horsham, Sussex, in 1902; Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed., New York, 1910), 6: 295 296.
Inscriptions center left, inside boat: JSCopley.P.1778-
Notes More info at museum site
References
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